Margaret Swink

Margaret Swink is a seasoned professional focusing on utilizing effective communication strategies to enhance brand reputation and engage diverse stakeholders across various industries and issues.

With experience spanning activism, advocacy, philanthropy, startups, and corporate sectors, Margaret has tackled a wide range of challenges such as diversity and inclusion, product launches, deepfakes, and environmental initiatives like forest offsets.

Throughout her career, Margaret has championed small yet high-potential projects, leveraging her expertise in corporate communications to elevate brand reputation, manage media relations, curate content, craft compelling narratives, foster partnerships, handle executive communications, and address crisis situations.

Margaret finds fulfillment in fostering collaborative environments where innovative ideas are born, and she excels in building teams and partnerships that inspire everyone involved to contribute to something greater.

An attentive listener and proactive professional, Margaret brings a genuine sense of humanity to the organizations she collaborates with, ensuring a holistic and authentic approach to her work.

Margaret's educational background includes an MA in International Relations from Yale University, a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University, and additional studies at General Assembly.

Her previous roles include serving as Interim Director at Global Philanthropy Forum, Director of Global Diversity & Inclusion Communications, and Global External Relations Lead for Diversity + Inclusion at McKinsey & Company, Vice President at Edelman, Startup Entrepreneur at Wee Toys, Communications Director at Ploughshares Fund, Communications Manager at Rainforest Action Network, Account Executive at Spitfire Strategies, and Peace Corps Volunteer at the U.S Peace Corps.